British police have travelled to Portugal to liaise with local officers investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. A Scotland Yard team flew to the Algarve days after a letter was sent to Portuguese police requesting help with tracking down and interviewing three burglars who were in the area when Madeleine vanished. Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who is leading the investigation for the Metropolitan Police, was pictured arriving in Faro with three colleagues. They held meetings with senior members of Portugal's Policia Judiciaria and are believed to have discussed leads recently identified by the Operation Grange investigation team in the UK. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said the letter requesting help from the Portuguese authorities is understood to have arrived in Portugal "in the last 24 hours or so". He said: "Four detectives from Scotland Yard arrived yesterday to meet their Portuguese colleagues - there's a small team of Portuguese police working in the Algarve on behalf of Scotland Yard. "We know that among those detectives from London is Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, who's the officer in charge of the British end of the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. "It's certainly not the first time Scotland Yard detectives have visited Portugal - more than a dozen times in the last two years since Scotland Yard have been reviewing and then investigating Madeleine's disappearance has such a team gone to liaise. "But it could be of some big significance because we know that earlier this month the UK authorities sent what's known as an international letter of request to the Portuguese authorities seeking, we think, help in interviewing three potential suspects." Earlier this month, Sky News reported that Det Chief Insp Redwood's team were hunting three men whose phones were "red hot" after Madeleine went missing from her family's Praia da Luz apartment in May 2007. Mobile phone records show that the men made numerous calls to each other in the hours after Kate and Gerry McCann discovered their daughter - three years old at the time - had disappeared from her room. No arrests have been made since the Met set up Operation Grange in 2011 to review the case. Portuguese police reopened their investigation last year, more than three years after it had been shelved. Video, UK Crime, UK News, Crime News, Crime, Gerry McCann, Madeleine McCann Case, UK Police, Madeleine McCann Missing, Kate McCann, Madeleine Mccann Update, Portugal, Madeleine McCann, Madeleine Mcann Update, Crime News Euclides Monteiro, Madeleine McCann Suspect, Madeleine Mccann Disappearance, Madeleine McCann Case, Euclides Monteiro Madeleine Mccann, Madeleine McCann, Madeleine McCann Investigation, Crime News Madeleine McCann Missing, Madeleine McCann Portugal, New Leads in Madeleine McCann Case, Madeleine McCann Suspect, Leads in Madeleine McCann Case, Madeleine McCann Case, Madeleine McCann, Crime News Crime, Crime News, UK Police, Kate McCann, Madeleine Mcann Update, Video, UK News, UK Crime, Madeleine McCann Case, Gerry McCann, Madeleine McCann Missing, Portugal, Madeleine Mccann Update, Madeleine McCann, Crime News Madeleine Mccann Disappearance, Madeleine McCann Suspect, Suspect in Madeleine McCann Disappearance, Madeleine McCann, Crime News,Madeleine McCann Missing, Scotland Yard, Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood, Video, Portugal, Madeleine McCann, Scotland Yard Madeleine McCann, Crime News Madeleine Mccann Disappearance, Girl Missing Portugal, Madeleine McCann Missing, Madeleine McCann Search, Girl Missing London, Madeleine McCann, Madeleine McCann Phone Records, Crime News Maddy McCann, Stephen Birch, Scotland Yard, Video, Madeleine Mccann Dead, Madeleine Mccann Stephen Birch, Madeleine Mccann Alive, Missing Children, Madeleine Mccan Missing, Madeleine McCann, Madeleine McCann Investigation, Crime News Metropolitan Police, Gerry McCann, Madeleine-Mccann-Disappearance, Praia-Del-Luz, Madeleine McCann Parents, Kate McCann, Madeleine Mccann Anniversary, Portugal, Madeleine Mccann Update, Missing Children, Madeleine McCann, Crime News Missing British Girl, Maddy McCann, Scotland Yard, Video, Madeleine Mccann Cyprus, Interpol, Gerry McCann, Madeleine McCann Parents, Madeline McCann, Kate McCann, Madeleine Mccann Update, Madeleine-Mccann-Update, Missing Children, Madeleine McCann, Madeleine McCann Sighting, Crime News Madeleine McCann,UK Police Fly To Portugal,Yard team in Portugal,British police in Portugal,Scotland Yard detectives fly to Portugal,Madeleine McCann case,possible arrests in Maddie case,Madeleine McCann suspects,Maddie detectives fly to Portugal,Video,UK Crime,UK News,Crime News,Crime,Gerry McCann,UK Police,Madeleine McCann Missing,Kate McCann,Madeleine Mccann Update,Portugal,Madeleine Mccann Disappearance,Euclides Monteiro Madeleine Mccann,Madeleine McCann Investigation,

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